ATHLETICS
THE AUSTRALASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. OTAGO RESENTS THE SELECTION OF WELLINGTON AS A SITE. - [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, May 22. At a special .meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association held to-nignt, A. Marryatt, and J. H. Pollocik, the representatives of the Otago, centre, handed in their resignations. This action is the outcome of Otago’s resentment at the action of- their delegates. in voting for Wellington- as the place to hold the Australasian championships. contrary to the instructions of the Otago centre. ■ ‘ , The Otago centre passed a resolution revoking the appointment of Marryatt and Pollock as delegates, and, although Marryatt and, Pollock (believe the centre has 110 power to clo this, they regard the resolution .as a vote of want of confidence, and prefer to resign. The resignations were accepted, and the delegates thanked for their services to amateur athletics. WORLD’S WALKING RECORD.
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] yy . LONDON, May 21. Schofield walked 25 miles at H-ernihill in 217 minutes 7 Seconds, a world’s record.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19110523.2.74.5
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3225, 23 May 1911, Page 6
Word Count
167ATHLETICS Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3225, 23 May 1911, Page 6
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in